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Murkowski Concedes to Miller in Alaska’s GOP Primary
After a tumultuous indecisive primary election and a week of bitter disputes, Alaska’s Senator Lisa Murkowski finally conceded the GOP Senate primary victory...
Is America Headed Toward Japanese-style Economic “Lost Decades”?
Just one week after James Bullard of the St. Louis branch of the Federal Reserve Bank released his August 6 paper declaring that...
Read moreLarry McDonald — An American Hero Remembered
Congressman Lawrence McDonald had served as a medical doctor, an officer in the U.S. Navy, a U.S. Representative from Georgia, and the chairman...
Read moreGroups Asked EPA to Ban Lead in Hunting Ammo
The Environmental Protection Agency, which has authority to ban toxic substances under the Toxic Substance Control Act of 1976, was petitioned by the...
Read moreNBC Nightly News Williams Grills Obama on Birth Certificate, Religious Affiliation Polls
NBC’s Nightly News last Sunday, August 29, featured an interview in New Orleans on the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, between reporter Brian...
Read more(Supposed) End of U.S. Combat Role in Iraq
Speaking in a television address broadcast nationally just hours before the formal end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq on August 31, Iraqi...
Read moreHow Big Was Beck’s “Restoring Honor” Rally?
The “Restoring Honor” rally that Glenn Beck held in Washington this past weekend brought in huge numbers of people from all over the...
Read moreAutomatic Citizenship
A recent article published at Politico.com asked, “What makes an American?” That question and the implications arising from the many answers being proffered...
Read moreMichelle Obama’s Federal Fat Farm
ObamaCare makes every American’s health the government’s business, but Barack Obama is not the only member of his family interested in employing the...
Read moreWind Power Creates Problems
What happens when government tries to make things better? Usually, it makes things worse. Wind power sounded like a harmless enough idea. ...
Read moreObama Admin Indicts U.S. in Human Rights Report
President Barack Obama’s first-ever report to the United Nations Human Rights Council asserts that the United States has committed a variety of human...
Read moreBoondoggles in Baghdad, Basra, and Beyond
Your tax dollars at work, as reported by the Associated Press: “As the U.S. draws down in Iraq, it is leaving behind hundreds...
Read moreTrilateral Commission Keeps Expanding
Launched in 1973, the Trilateral Commission (TC) listed an initial roster of 187 members, all of whom hailed from three areas: Western Europe,...
Read moreAlaska Primary: Miller Concerned Murkowski May Try to Pull an Al Franken
The absentee ballots that were cast in Alaska’s Republican Senate primary will be counted on August 31. Current estimates are that about 7,600...
Read more2012 — Global Blackout or Another Y2K?
When the year 2012 is mentioned, one usually assumes the worst. Dave Reneke, an Australian astronomy lecturer and columnist, may have just given...
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